The Internal Revenue Service is collecting a lot more than taxes this year--it's also acquiring a huge volume of personal information on taxpayers' digital activities, from eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for the first time ever, credit card and e-payment transaction records, as it expands its search for tax cheats to places it's never gone before.

We are officially a socialist nation, but it has taken a lot of imbecilic politicians, jurists and other assorted sycophants to get the job done.

This is not black magic, rather it has happened right before our eyes. We can only hope and pray that a savior will come up with a stop to this insanity that takes our system of elections and uses it to hang us!

The gargantuan IRS can now use profiling in order to enforce an evil confiscation system, but it is not permissible to halt terrorism using profiling.

Take this country back from evil regimes that would relegate America to the scrap pile of history. In order to accomplish this it would take a gigantic incinerator to reduce to ashes ever piece of worthless and/or harmful legislation passed into law since 1913.

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posted on 04/06/2013 5:02:49 AM PDT
by IbJensen
(Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)

Yep. It sounds like they’ve developed AI software that is tied to a neural type network with access to multiple data source providers such as credit reporting agencies, eBay, Paypal, FB (businesses operating from there), FINCEN, possibly FDIC, and a financial reporting system tied into banks via the implementation of Obamacare (which I think was one of the primary objectives; access to all citizens financial records). I bet it’s set up to match reported income opposed to real time financial data and flag taxpayers whose figures are off by a certain percentage or more. I also bet it has a function to ignore or override certain taxpayers like say Obamie and all Congressmen. I also bet there will be corruption when it’s found out certain people are paying to keep them off the suit lists. I work with a lot of tools like these and am an investigator so I have my suspicions about where they are getting their info and how it’s going to be used against us.

Do like the illegals do and just say, (555) 987-6543 or make up one...lol

If you think that’s bad you ought to see auto loan credit apps from the ghetto. A complete work of fiction on every level. They have their auntie’s confirming their “employment”, all their addresses are family members, their SSNs are bought, etc..., etc...

I don’t twitter or FB, since I don’t have the need to tell everyone I am in the Starbucks restroom doing a #2.

I also have never trusted eBay nor Craigslist.

I do some online purchasing but it is impossible not to. It might be possible to link my purchases to my income level, but they are pretty normal (not that I approve of Big Brother looking over my shoulder).

The Moral: STAY AS ANONYMOUS AS POSSIBLE ON THE INTERWEBZ!

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posted on 04/06/2013 6:07:20 AM PDT
by freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)

Lots of computing power, for what? The agency's computers can now load all U.S. tax returns in just 10 hours, compared with the four months it took just eight years ago, Jeff Butler, IRS director of research databases told the IBM TechAmerica conference last November. That leaves a lot of time for other uses. The IRS says it expects 80 percent of its tax returns to be filed electronically this year. That makes a total of 250 million returns filed, with $2 trillion in revenue.

All the more reason to file your return on paper instead of electronically. Force them to expend their labor forces processing paper. I always make a minor mistake in calculation - in their favor of course. This forces them to manually reprocess the return.

If all of us were to do this at tax time the gestapo wouldn't have time for these shenanigans.

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posted on 04/06/2013 6:29:39 AM PDT
by rockrr
(Everything is different now...)

This is scary stuff, and I stopped using Facebook for the reasons you refer to. (But I sure do miss seeing those photos of the grandchildren. The kids send some of them to me, but I miss the real time updates about them.)

“They refused to sell me one because I wouldnt give them my unlisted home phone number.”

Home-depot wanted my birth date to make a purchase the other day. I told them I didn’t know because I was adopted from a Czechoslovakian orphanage and there were no records. In the end, I gave them a phony date...

“Home-depot wanted my birth date to make a purchase the other day. I told them I didnt know because I was adopted from a Czechoslovakian orphanage and there were no records. In the end, I gave them a phony date...”

Geez were you buying wine for your flowers?!

Thanks to warnings over a decade ago from a younger relative and his Stanford grad wife, we never do anything like that.

No Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Kohls and whatever ever credit card.

My nephew and his very smart wife told us that we have one maternal mother’s name, one birthdate and place, one first dog and other firsts. The more one uses these personal data, the easier we make it for the crooks. When I have to sign up, my mother’s maiden was Claus, and I was born 12/25/1900, my dog was Rudolf and similar stuff.

One friend only uses hot mail with the following addressee, John Doe (with several numbers after him).

Facebook, LinkedIn and similar sites are for the perpetually lonely and stupid.

I learned something recently. One of our IT employees was looking for a backpack at Target he wanted but wanted to pay cash instead. The Target customer service said to buy the target prepaid card and you can use it to buy from the site. He just changed his IP address from his laptop and he actually did buy it using the card. The bad part is the address where it’s going to..

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posted on 04/06/2013 7:46:33 AM PDT
by max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))

>>This sure sounds like a direct attack on the 4th Amendment about privacy.<<

The IRS has been exempt from the USC, particularly Amendments IV and V, since its inception. I have never understood the legal theory other than “you have our money and we will use any and all means to get it.”

Any legal eagles out there that can supply a summary of cases, etc?

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posted on 04/06/2013 8:53:47 AM PDT
by freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)

What I think does not matter. If advertising on the internet your willingness to commit perjury appeals to you, go to it. My post was merely stating a fact. Whether you or the FReeper I posted to want to be a test case...do as you see fit.

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